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    Russia Says Crimea Barrier Is Complete
    Dec28

    Russia Says Crimea Barrier Is Complete

    Russian authorities say they have finished building a barrier dividing the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow forcibly seized in 2014, from mainland Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    UNICEF: Children in Conflict Face Grave Rights Violations
    Dec28

    UNICEF: Children in Conflict Face Grave Rights Violations

    Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. children’s fund said it had responded to more than 300 emergencies to help children caught in many of the 40 armed conflicts raging around the world. UNICEF said children had been tortured, raped, used...

    US to Boost Weapons Research in Response to Russia
    Dec28

    US to Boost Weapons Research in Response to Russia

    The United States will step up research in hypersonic offense and defense weapons, in response to a Russian test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic glider. “While the United States has been the world leader in hypersonic system research for many decades, we did not choose to weaponize it,” Defense Department spokeswoman Lt. Col. Michelle...

    Do You Know Your Pelmeni From Your Pierogi?
    Dec28

    Do You Know Your Pelmeni From Your Pierogi?

    There are dumplings … and then there are dumplings! Across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, nothing inspires more passionate debate than which dumplings — pelmeni, pierogi, varenyky, or khinkali, to name a few — are better. And which ones are the real deal? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Poroshenko Ends Martial Law In Ukraine As Tensions With Russia Continue
    Dec26

    Poroshenko Ends Martial Law In Ukraine As Tensions With Russia Continue

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced the end of martial law in the country’s border regions that was imposed last month after Russia seized Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Poroshenko Announces End to Martial Law in Ukraine
    Dec26

    Poroshenko Announces End to Martial Law in Ukraine

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday announced the end of a martial law in the country’s border regions, which was introduced last month after Russia’s seizure of three of Kyiv’s navy vessels in the Sea of Azov. “Today, right now, at 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) the martial law ends. This is my principal...

    Pope Calls For Peace In Syria, Yemen In Christmas Message
    Dec25

    Pope Calls For Peace In Syria, Yemen In Christmas Message

    Pope Francis used his Christmas message on December 25 to urge the world to put aside “partisan interests” to find a political solution to conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and other flash points. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Weightlifters From Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia Hit After Doping Tests
    Dec25

    Weightlifters From Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia Hit After Doping Tests

    Five weightlifters from former Soviet states, including two former Olympic champions, have been provisionally suspended after retests of their samples from the 2012 London Olympics came back positive for doping, the sports’ governing body says. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Remarks by Belarusian Leader Upstage Sensitive Kremlin Talks
    Dec25

    Remarks by Belarusian Leader Upstage Sensitive Kremlin Talks

    Less than a day before arriving in Moscow to salvage frayed ties with his Russian counterpart, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he no longer considers Russia a “brotherly nation.” According to a television broadcast by Belsat, a Belarus-focused satellite channel headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, Lukashenko told a Monday...

    Russia Expands Economic Sanctions on Ukraine
    Dec25

    Russia Expands Economic Sanctions on Ukraine

    Russia on Tuesday expanded its economic sanctions on Ukraine, adding more than 250 people and businesses to a blacklist first announced at the start of November. According to a decree by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, 245 individuals and seven companies, mostly in the energy and defense sectors, were sanctioned by Moscow. Relations between...